Economics and the Infantilization of Culture
Capitalist wealth plus economic ignorance, underappreciation, and romanticism create a recipe for an infantile culture.
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When Pinker Doesn’t Know
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon aptly points out, Pinker knows a lot less than he thinks he does.
The Noun Doctrine: Why Governments Prefer Enemies That Can’t Surrender
When the state declares war on an abstraction, it discovers the formula for perpetuity.
The Crisis of the American Tax State
The United States is now a full-blown “tax state” in that lawmakers can raise taxes with minimal effort without meaningful legal resistance from any other domestic institution.
Mises and the Praxeological Message: Solitude, Reason, and Liberty
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is not just another book on economics, although its economic content is excellent and timeless. It is a passage through one truth after another, built upon logic and reason.
The “Acid Rain” Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex
“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.
Rothbard on the Constitution
"Overall, it should be evident that the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary reaction to the libertarianism and decentralization embodied in the American Revolution."
Chatting with A Dead Economist: J.M. Keynes, The Patron Saint of the Central Planner
While J.M. Keynes likely is the most influential economist of our age, his economics were that of inflation, statism, and outright central planning.
Should Libertarians be Monarchists?
If we are to consider the desirability of monarchy through a libertarian lens, it is important to make distinctions between greatly differing types of monarchy.
Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will challenge the political establishment? Probably not.
